Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle